The Rat & the Convent Dove and other Tales & Fables.

Title

en_US The Rat & the Convent Dove and other Tales & Fables.

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US This book has a dust jacket (book cover)

en_US First edition

en_US Paul Roche

Creator

en_US Roche, Paul See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Scott, Anne

Date

2016-01-25T15:53:11Z

en_US 1992-03

en_US 1952

Date Available

2016-01-25T15:53:11Z

Date Issued

en_US 1952

Abstract

en_US The dust jacket is right: these stories are not to be swallowed in one gulp. I have many reactions. The title piece is a good put-down of the arrogant rat nicely placed in the clash of two worlds. At the other end of the book is A Fable to End Fables: hyena learned at last to forget some wisdom and to begin again to play. So Paul Roche wrote to me in the inscription of his Aesop book: Only one fable at a time! On the negative side, wisdom may overwhelm the story in some cases (The Muck-Beetle's Son and The Frog Who Would A-Wooing Go) or sentimentality may overwhelm it in others (The Grateful Humming-Bird). The best of the stories are The Church Mice and the Pious Lady, The Pig and the Plum Tree, and especially The Barbary Ape. There is some straight Aesop here (The Two Dogs, which is Aesop's DW) and some Aesop bent to new purposes (The Tortoise and the Hare). The Llama's Yak shows good insight: the more he listened to holy things, the more disagreeable he became. Many of these stories remind me of Tony DiMello. Overall, I would say that there is wisdom here but not as much cleverness as I would hope for. Scott's illustrations are curious. The best of them is on 10.

Identifier

en_US 1385 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/76960

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US The Hand & Flower Press

en_US Aldington, Kent

Subject

en_US PZ8.2.R58 Rat 1952 See all items with this value

en_US Roche See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole